Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economists.

In London, I'm Jason Palmer.

And in New York, I'm John Fassman.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Nuclear power may be green, but spent nuclear fuel is anything but.

Most is currently stored in temporary underwater pools, but our environment editor has visited

the world's first permanent repository in pre-Cambrian bedrock deep beneath Finland.

And over the past four decades, access to education around the world has increased dramatically.

That's the good news.

The bad is that in far too many countries, the quality of schooling that students are

getting is in decline.

First up though.

One person in Brazil and two in Spain have died of monkeypox.

These are the first fatal cases of the disease outside Africa.

Health authorities in Brazil said the man who died was suffering from lymphoma, which

had weakened his immune system.

For most people though, the risk of death remains low, but the disease is proving

excruciatingly painful for many as it spreads around the world.

I had a friend of mine who went out one night and he came back a few days later with a huge

enormous rush on his side and on his nose.

And we were all a bit short.

And he couldn't even get out of bed and he'd been stuck in there for a week and he said

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